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The Great Reformer Martin Luther preached his final sermon 2/14/1546 at Eisleben, Germany. It was from Mat 11.28 (which in English reads) “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”

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5/17/1844 Julius Wellhausen was born. He became a “German biblical scholar.” He published (1878) History of Israel in which he argued the JEDP Hypothesis (type of religious evolution), claiming Pentateuch had four sources, thus weakening the Bible.

5/17/1881 The Revised Version (EV or ERV) of the New Testament was first published (England). The committee that produced this mis-translation was influenced significantly by two charactors named Westcott and Hort – fellows Henry Morris, Ph.D. (founder, Insititute for Creation Research) wrote “both denied Biblical inerrancy and promoted spiritism and racism.”

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4/19, Charles Darwin, died 1882, Down House. (Is this a propheticly-related name for the end of this man?) “Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a phantasy.” – Charles Darwin, Life and Letters, 1887, Vol. 2, p. 229.

Never do anything I would not want to be doing the last hour of my life.

Nothing puts a man so far from the devil’s reach as humility.

Colonial clergyman Jonathan Edwards (age 23) married Sarah Pierpont (age 16) this date, 7/20/1726. They were married over 30 years – married until his death in 1758. (his wife only out-lived him six months, dying at only 48).